Mourning Lincoln (61 page)

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fatal, Booth, genuine, forgive:
Martha Coffin Wright to Marianna Pelham Mott, Auburn, N.Y., May 4, 1865, box 265, Garrison Family Papers, SSC;
subordinates:
Martha Coffin Wright to David Wright, Roxbury, Mass., May 24, 1865, box 267, Garrison Family Papers, SSC;
Toussaint:
Martha Coffin Wright to sisters, Auburn, N.Y., June 25, 1865, box 266, Garrison Family Papers, SSC;
horrible, gentle:
Octavius B. Frothingham, “The Saints Coming from the Graves,”
National Anti-Slavery Standard
, Apr. 29, 1865, pp. 2–3.

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headlines:
Benjamin Brown French to Frank O. French, Washington, D.C., May 15, 1865, French Papers, LC;
telegraph:
Frederick G. Niles diary, May 16, 1865, HL;
newsboys:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, May 14, 1865, MHS;
celebrations:
Asa Fitch diary, May 15, 1865, Fitch Papers, Yale-Sterling; Silas W. Haven to Jane Haven, Montgomery, Ala., May 17, 1865, in
“A Punishment on the Nation”: An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War
, ed. Brian Craig Miller (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012), 178;
mingled:
Harriet Anne Severance diary, May 15, 1865, SL;
let us pass:
James Harrison Wilson to “Ad,” Macon, Ga., May 13, 1865, Adam Badeau Civil War Letters, Princeton;
disguised:
Sarah Browne diary, May 15, 1865, BFP;
ridiculous:
Annie G. Dudley Davis diary, May 15, 1865, HL;
ludicrous:
Thomas Bradford Drew diary, May 14, 1865, MHS;
disgraced:
Lucretia Hale to Charles Hale, Brookline, Mass., May 19, 1865, box 50, Hale Family Papers, SSC; Emmeline Yelland to Albert Yelland, [no place], May 23, 1865, Yelland Family Correspondence, Duke;
king:
Edgar Dinsmore to Carrie Drayton, Saint Andrews Parish, S.C., May 29, 1865, Dinsmore Papers, Duke;
woman:
Ellis Hughes diary, May 15, 1865, Hughes-Gray Family Papers, Duke;
images:
Simon Newcomb diary, June 7, 1865, Newcomb Papers, LC;
sales:
Sarah Lydia Gilpin diary, May 24, 1865, #06846.05, GLC-NYHS; Caroline Dunstan diary, May 25, 1865, NYPL.

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shall:
Samuel May almanac, Apr. 12, 1865, May Papers, MHS;
measure:
Charles Edward French diary, May 14, 1865, French Diaries and Papers, MHS;
fitted:
Edgar Dinsmore to Carrie Drayton, Saint Andrews Parish, S.C., May 29, 1865, Dinsmore Papers, Duke;
ready:
William Benjamin Gould diary, June 16, 1865, MHS;
roasted:
Sarah G. Putnam diary, Apr. 27, 1865, MHS;
no other:
Lydia Maria Child to John Greenleaf Whittier, May 1865, fragment, Child Letters, SL.

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force:
William Dean Howells to William Cooper Howells, Venice, June 6, 1865, 1784.1.2(78), Howells Family Papers, HLH;
anxious:
Charles Francis Adams to John G. Palfrey, London, June 6, 1865, Letterbooks, Adams Papers, MHS;
consternation:
Charles Francis Adams diary, May 27, June 14, 1865, and Adams to William Hunter, London, June
15, 1865, Letterbooks, Adams Papers, MHS;
martyr:
Charles Francis Adams to Charles Francis Adams Jr., London, May 26, 1865, Letters Received and Other Loose Papers, Adams Papers, MHS;
suicide:
William H. Stewart diary, May 11, 1865, ts., SHC.

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renew:
Emma F. LeConte diary, “Thursday” [May 18], 1865, reel 22, SHC-AWD-South.

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horsecars:
Marian Hooper to Mary Louisa Shaw, Boston, May 28, 1865, in
The Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, 1865–1883
, ed. Ward Thoron (Boston: Little, Brown, 1936), 5.

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weather:
Charles T. Cotton diary, May 23, 24, 1865, Columbia;
troops:
Benjamin Brown French,
Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee’s Journal, 1828–1870
, ed. Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1989), 478 (May 24, 1865, entry);
hours:
Samuel Canby diary, May 24, 1865, DHS;
marching:
Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, Washington, D.C., May 25, 1865, available at
whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/wwh.00008.html
;
“John Brown”:
Marian Hooper to Mary Louisa Shaw, Boston, May 28, 1865, in Thoron,
Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams
, 7;
flags:
Annie G. Dudley Davis diary, May 28, 1865, HL.

For observations of African Americans marching, see also Marian Hooper to Mary Louisa Shaw, Boston, May 28, 1865, in Thoron,
Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams
, 8. On black troops, see Noah Brooks, “The Grand Review—First Day,” Washington, D.C., May 23, 1865, in
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington: Selections from the Writings of Noah Brooks, Civil War Correspondent
, ed. P. J. Staudenraus (South Brunswick, N.J.: Thomas Yoseloff, 1967), 475.

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generations, return:
French,
Witness to the Young Republic
, 479 (May 24, 1865, entry);
greatest:
Simon Newcomb diary, May 24, 1865, Newcomb Papers, LC;
continent, never return:
James Thomas Ward diary, May 23, 1865, Ward Papers, LC;
magnificent, all:
Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson
, 3 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 2:310 (May 22–23, 1865, entry);
should:
Abial H. Edwards to Anna L. Conant, Washington, D.C., May 26, 1865, in
“Dear Friend Anna”: The Civil War Letters of a Common Soldier from Maine
, ed. Beverly Hayes Kallgren and James L. Crouthamel (Orono: University of Maine Press, 1992), 128;
strange:
Marian Hooper to Mary Louisa Shaw, Boston, May 28, 1865, in Thoron,
Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams
, 7.

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looking:
Stephen Minot Weld to Hannah Weld, near Alexandria, Va., May 25, 1865, in
War Diary and Letters of Stephen Minot Weld, 1861–1865
(Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1912), 399;
perlite:
Guy C. Taylor to Sarah Taylor, near Washington, Va., May 20, 1865, in
Letters Home to Sarah: The Civil War Letters of Guy C. Taylor, Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers
, ed. Kevin Alderson and Patsy Alderson (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012), 263;
tired:
Rufus Mead Jr. diary, May 24, 1865, Mead Papers, LC.

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devilish:
Mary H. and Dallas M. Lancaster, eds.,
The Civil War Diary of Anne S. Frobel
(McLean, Va.: EPM, 1992), 230 (May 22, 1865, entry).

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postcards, First Lady:
“Cornelia” to parent(s), New York, Apr. 17–19, 1865, Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscripts, NYHS;
medal:
Frances Owens diary, May 3, 1865, CHM;
Johnson:
F. C. Chambers diary, Apr. 24, 1865, Chambers Family Diaries, Princeton;
Washington:
Caroline Dunstan diary, May 29, 1865, NYPL;
photographs:
William Gray Brooks diary, May 9, 1865, Brooks Papers, MHS; Harriet Anne Severance diary, July 1, 1865, SL; Margaret B. Howell diary, May 9, 1865, HSP;
Tad, speeches, memorial book:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, May 5, 15, 13, 1865, MHS;
Booth, biography:
Susan E. Parsons Brown Forbes diary, Apr. 18, 1865, AAS;
Booth:
E. Gould to John Mead Gould, Portland, Me., Apr. 17, 1865, Gould Papers, Duke;
sermons:
William Gray Brooks diary, May 9, 1865, Brooks Papers, MHS;
memorial:
B. F. Morris,
Memorial Record of the Nation’s Tribute to Abraham Lincoln
(Washington, D.C.: W. H. and O. H. Morrison, 1865).

Victor Searcher writes, “The memorabilia of Lincoln’s passing—the badges, pamphlets, posters, books, special newspaper editions, magazine features, sketches, engravings, photographs and other souvenirs—is beyond belief”; see
The Farewell to Lincoln
(New York: Abingdon, 1965), 294.

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renewed, drapery:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, May 13, June 26, 1865, MHS.

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scrapbooks:
scrapbook compiled by J. W. H. Cathcart, 24-S12, ser. K, Cromwell Family Papers, Schomburg; Samuel Canby diary, May 1865, DHS;
New Yorker:
“Notebook containing drawings and transcriptions of memorial tributes to Abraham Lincoln displayed in New York, N.Y. and other places in the aftermath of his assassination,” McLellan Lincoln Collection and Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown; see also Ted Widmer, “New York’s Lincoln Memorial,” Op-Archive: Lincoln Memorial Diary,
New York Times
, Apr. 17, 2009, available at nytimes.com/2009/04/17/opinion/17widmer.html;
Carrington:
C. C. Carrington, “Assassination and Funeral of President Lincoln,” scrap-book, 1865–71, 2 vols., McLellan Lincoln Collection, Brown.

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collar:
Newton Ferree diary, Apr. 14, 1865, in “Eyewitness to History: Newton Ferree, the Lincoln Assassination and the Close of the Civil War in Washington,” ed. John K. Lattimer and Terry Alford,
Lincoln Herald
58 (1956), 97;
towel:
Augustus Clark to S. M. Allen, Washington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1865, accompanying scrap of bloodstained towel used for Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre, Special Collections, MHS;
alley:
Marian Hooper to Mary Louisa Shaw, Boston, May 28, 1865, in
The Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, 1865–1883
, ed. Ward Thoron (Boston: Little, Brown, 1936), 8;
crestfallen:
Catherine Gansevoort Lansing diary, May 23–28, 1865, box 255, Gansevoort-Lansing Papers, NYPL;
crape, theater, Petersen’s:
James Otis Moore to Mary Elizabeth Moore, “Chapel Pt.,” May 7, 1865, and James Otis Moore to Mary Elizabeth Moore, Washington, D.C., Apr. 20, 1865, Moore Papers, Duke.

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left:
Marian Hooper to Mary Louisa Shaw, Boston, May 28, 1865, in Thoron,
Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams
, 8.

1
. Dorman diary, June 20 (rebellion, surpassing), May 30 (people, thousand), 2 (damned), June 7 (sharks, contemptible), 9 (ninnyhammers, blaspheming, craven), 24 (dogs), 1865.

2
. Dorman diary, June 20 (flummery, starvation), 27 (property, education), 18 (theives),
May 23 (inciters), 16 (ignorant, insolent), 28 (worse), 1865; on slave property, see also May 12, 1865.

oath:
Justus Silliman to brother, Jacksonville, Fla., May 18, 1865, in
A New Canaan Private in the Civil War: Letters of Justus M. Silliman, 17th Connecticut Volunteers
, ed. Edward Marcus (New Canaan, Conn.: New Canaan Historical Society, 1984), 108.

3
. Dorman diary, June 10 (worst), 3 (enjoy), Apr. 26 (tyranny), 1865.

changes, die:
William B. Johnson, “Florida Correspondence,” Jacksonville, Fla., June 22, 1865,
Christian Recorder
, published July 8, 1865.

4
. Dorman diary, June 27 (negroes), May 15 (war, one sided), 14 (no better), 30 (over), 1865.

5
. Albert Browne to Sarah Browne, Savannah, Ga., May 16, 1865 (disfranchise, literacy); Albert Browne to “Dear Ones,” Charleston, S.C., Apr. 28, 1865 (part of Apr. 24 letter) (active); Albert Browne, [no salutation], Charleston, S.C., May 11, 1865 (loyal, ballot), all BFP.

6
. Albert Browne to “Dear Ones,” Charleston, S.C., Apr. 28, 1865 (part of Apr. 24 letter) (wonder, acres); Albert Browne, [no salutation], Charleston, S.C., May 11, 1865 (supported); Albert Browne to “Dear Ones,” Charleston, S.C., Apr. 27, 1865 (part of Apr. 24 letter) (demand), all BFP.

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. Albert Browne to “Dear Ones,” Charleston, S.C., Apr. 28, 1865 (part of Apr. 24 letter) (human nature, fancy); Albert Browne, [no salutation], Charleston, S.C., May 11, 1865 (dont love); Sarah Browne diary, May 1, 1864 (earnest), May 26, 1865 (dear), all BFP.

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unsatisfactory, cup:
Abraham Lincoln, “Last Public Address,” Apr. 11, 1865,
CWL
, 8:403, 404.

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inexorable:
Chester dispatch, Richmond, Va., May 19, 1865, in
Thomas Morris Chester: Black Civil War Correspondent—His Dispatches from the Virginia Front
, ed. R. J. M. Blackett (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989), 348–49;
confidence:
“The Duties of the Nation,”
San Francisco Elevator
, May 19, 1865, #4997, BAP;
right:
“Box,” letter to the editor, May 28, 1865,
San Francisco Elevator
, published July 7, 1865, #4993, BAP;
awakened:
“Emancipation Celebration at Bath, Pennsylvania,”
Christian Recorder
, Aug. 12, 1865.

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enemies:
Garland H. White to William H. Seward, City Point, Va., Apr. [n.d.], 1865, William H. Seward Papers, University of Rochester (I thank Christopher Hager, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., for transcribing and sharing this document);
noble:
John H. Winston, letter to the editor,
New Orleans Black Republican
, Apr. 22, 1865, #3405, BAP.

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loyal:
Andrew Johnson, “Address to Loyal Southerners,” Apr. 24, 1865,
PAJ
, 7:631.

12
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pardon:
Andrew Johnson, “Amnesty Proclamation,” May 29, 1865,,
PAJ
, 8:128–31.

13
. For a clear summary of the proclamation, see James M. McPherson,
Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 498–99;
we see:
William Benjamin Gould diary, July 11, 1865, MHS;
after:
“Will Justice Be Done?”
San Francisco Elevator
, June 2, 1865, #5477, BAP;
differ:
Lincoln, “Last Public Address,” Apr. 11, 1865,
CWL
, 8:401.